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"UNDER THREE FLAGS" 

INDIANA 



EDITED AND COMPILED BY 

GEORGE s'f COTTMAN 

MAX RtTTVMAN 



ADAPTED FROM COTTMAN-HYMAN CENTENNIAL 
HISTORY OF INDIANA 



PUBLISHED BY 

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INDIANAPOLIS 



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GOD BLESS OLD INDIANA 



GOD BLESS OLD INDIANA, child of the pioneers, GOD BLESS OLD INDIANA, wherever the Flag 



in the solitude of swamp and wood they builded 
for future years; braving the dangers of track- 
less wilds, patient to work and wait, till the 
clearings about their cabins merged into a 
mighty State. 



has gone in the roaring hell of shot and shell, 
her soldiers have followed on ; she has yielded 
her blood and treasure, and whatever the 
sacrifice, needful to prove her devotion, she has 
willinelv paid the price. 



GOD BLESS OLD INDIANA, hers is no heritage 
of blood-bought glory of kingly lines come down 
from another age; but hers is the glory of 
empire won for the happiness of men. of cities 
builded, and harvests reaped, where once there 
were bog and fen. 



GOD BLESS OLD INDIANA, hers are no cities 
great, where criine and poverty cast the shadow 
of suffering turned to hate; but hers is a country 
of open skies, and of open heart and hand, 
where God's own sunshine unhindered falls on 
another Promised Land. 



GOD BLESS OLD INDIANA, and let us lovingly 
toast a land where the Home is highly enthroned ; 
a country whose highest boast is not of the 
deeds of a distant past, of riches or martial 
fame, but that happiness, like the sunshine, falls 
on all her homes the same. 

GOD BLESS OLD INDIANA, and keep her a happy 
State: give to her sons of the years to come 
tlie spirit tliat-made her great. Deep and serene 
as her forests, and strong as their mighty trees 
— such were the old-time Hoosiers. O God, give 
us men like these! 

— Giorgt 8. Lockwooti. 



MAY 26 1916 



HISTORICAL 

An Outline of the State's Development 



The Mound Builders. — That the territory 
now occupied by Indiana was inhabited by pre- 
historic people is evidenced by their work, 
silent yet indisputable evidence of their for- 
mer occupancy, which still remains. These 
works, notable in the southern part of the 
State, are in the form of mounds, memorial 
pillars, fortifications, weapons and domestic 
utensils that furnish "abundant evidence to 
show that at one time, long anterior to the 
coming of the red man, Indiana was quite 
densely populated by a race that lived, flour- 
ished and passed awa},"* leaving no other 
traces of their existence. They have been 
classed as the Mound Builders. 

•Smith's Histoly of Indiana, p. 42 



Under Three Flags. — The territory which is 
now included within the present boundaries of 
Indiana was formerly owned by the Miami 
Confederacy of Indians. It was first explored 
by La Salle in the latter part of the seven- 
teenth century, about 1670. when he is said to 
have descended the Ohio river as far as the 
Louisville rapids. It is well established that 
he traversed the region of the Kankakee and 
St. Joseph rivers in the northwestern part of 
the State in 167Q. Father Allouez, the French 
missionari,'. accompanied by Dablon, visited 
this vicinity in 1675-80.t and French trappers 
appeared at the end of the seventeenth cen- 
tury. 

tHIstory ,)f .\..tr.- Icune. p. SO. 



It was under the domination of France! 
from the time of the discovery of the mouth 
of the Mississippi by La Salle, in 1682, until 
1763, when it was ceded to Great Britain after 
the French and Indian war. From 1763 to 
1779 it was held nominally by Great Britain 
as a part of her colonial possessions in North 
America and the jurisdiction of the State of 
Virginia was formally extended over it from 
1779 to 1784. 

In 1778, during the Revolution, Vincennes 
and Kaskaskia were captured from the British 
by a force of Virginians' under George Rogers 
Clark and later in the same year the region 



northwest of the Ohio was made the county 
of Illinois by the Virginia Legislature. 

In 1783 the British claims to all territory 
east of the Mississippi and north of Florida 
were relinquished in favor of the United 
States. The States which claimed title to 
lands northwest of the Ohio and east of the 
Mississippi ceded their rights to the United 
States before 1787, and in that year this re- 
gion was organized as the Northwest Terri- 
tory. 

Indiana Territory. — In 1800 that part of the 
Northwest Territory lying between the Mis- 
sissippi river and a line extending from a point 



tJacob Pi.ntt Dunn, in his Hl.stor.v of Indiana, sii.v 
"Indiana had no capital within her boundaries for one h 
dred and thirty years after white men hart been upon 
soil. She was but part of a province of a province 
ninety years her provincial seat of government vncilla 
between Quebec. .New Orleans and Montreal, with inter 
diate authority at Fort ("hartres and Detroit and the u 
mate power at Paris 'I'beii lier capital was wliisked av 



to London, without the slightest lesanl to the wishes of her 
scattered inhabitants, by the treaty of Paris. Sixteen years 
later. It came over the Atlantic to Richmond, on the James, 
by conquest : and after a tarry of five years at that poii>t. 
It shifted to .New Tork City, then the national seat of 
Kovernment. by cession In 1788 It reached Marietta. Ohio, 
on its proKress toward Its flnal location In ISOfl It came 
within the limits of the State" 



on the Ohio river opposite the mouth of the 
Kentucky to Fort Recovery and thence to the 
Canadian hne was organized as the Territory 
of Indiana. The new territory thus comprised 
nearly all of the present State of Indiana, to- 
gether with the area now constituting Illinois, 
Wisconsin, northeastern Minnesota and west- 
ern Michigan. Two years later, by a clause in 
the enabling act for Ohio, the boundary be- 
tween Indiana and Ohio was fixed in its pres- 



ent location and b\- the same act the region 
north of Ohio was added to Indiana. In 1804 
the form of territorial government was 
changed from the first to the second grade, 
thus giving Indiana a Legislature and a Dele- 
gate in Congress. The organization of Michi- 
gan Territory in 1805, and Illinois Territor}' 
in 1809, left Indiana with its present boun- 
daries, and in December. 1816, the State of 
Indiana was admitted to the L^nion. 




SEUTTEBI'S MAP OF 1720. 

Matthse Seutteri's map showing the political 
divisions of America in 1720, is one of a valuable 
collection of French charts possessed by the 
Indiana State Library. The series is of interest 
as showing not only the political changes from 
time to time, but also the development of the 
geographical knowledge of the country, the earli- 
est ones revealing many errors, particularly in 
the locating of lakes and water courses. 

Seutteri's map has been selected for reproduc- 
tion as the one best showing the English and 
French possessions in the days of "New Prance," 
and also the boundary line between the two vast 
French provinces, Canada and Louisiana. As a 
matter of fact the exact location of this boundary 
running east and west has been a debatable 
point, but it lay somewhat north of the line 
drawn by Seutteri, for Vincennes lay south of 
it, being in the Louisiana province. Ouiatanon 
lay in Canada, so the boundary crossed Indiana 
somewhere l)etweeu these posts. 

Assuming that Seutteri's lines are even ap- 
proximately correct, the resultant appearance of 
an animal monstrosity is a curious coincidence. 

A section on "Early French Maps" may be 
found in the Cottman-Hyman Centennial History 
of Indiana, p. 15. 










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SeutleriV Map of 1720. 



THE ORIGINAL INDIANA. 

To those who never heard of any Indiana other 
than the one we live in the map here presented 
will, at first glance, be an enigma. This tri- 
angular tract approximately enclosed by the Ohio 
river, the Little Kanawha river and the western 
ranges of the Appalachian mountains, lies m 
what is now West Virginia. Few maps present 
it, and none other so well as this, published in 
177S, by Thomas Hutchins, one of the first Amer- 
ican cartographers. 

The original "Indiana" was recognized by that 
name from about 1768 to the latter part of the 
eighteenth century. Soon after the passing of 
the French possessions into the hands of England 
the tract, consisting of about 5.000 square miles, 
was given by the Iroquois Indians to a trading 
company that had been organized in Philadelphia, 
as indemnity for goods that had been forcibly 
seized by some predatory bands. The recipients 
of this rather generous restitution honored the 
donors by naming the tract "Indiana," or the 
land of the Indians. 

After the Revolutionary war both Virginia and 
the United States refused to recognize the title 
claimed by the company; Virginia took over the 
land, and the name applied to it ceased to exist. 
When Indiana Territory was formed in ISOO, the 
name was probably borrowed from the previous 
tract, though why or by whom is not known. 







Map of Original Indii 



CORYUON'S FAMOUS ELM TREE 

The most famous tree in Indiana is the "Con- 
stitutional Elm" at Corydon. Its celebrity Is 
borrowed from the tradition that during the pro- 
i-eedings of the constitutional convention, held 
June 10 to June 29, 1S16, the delegates preferred 
the shade of this great spreading tree to the 
shelter of a building. The tradition is pictur- 
esque and there is no reason to doubt it. 

As the picture shows, the tree lends itself 
splendidly to the dignity of fame. Its dimen- 
sions, as given by Charles C. Deam, former State 
Forester, are: Circumference of trunk, about four 
feet from the ground, 13 feet, 1 inch ; greatest 
width of crown, 113 feet; shortest width of 
crown, 97 feet. From the picture some idea may 
he had of the area of its shade. 




The Constitutional Elm. Cor>don. 



THE CORYDON CAPITOt. 

The famous old Capitol at Corydon, occupied 
by the Territorial and State Legislatures from 
1S13 to 182-t. was never the property of the State 
The particulars of its earliest history are largely 
traditional. It is said to have been built for the 
county of Harrison by Dennis Pennington, in 
1811-12, the contract having been let on the 9th 
day of March, 1S09. It has also been said that it 
was built in anticipation of the capital coming 
to Corydon, and that the character of its con- 
struction was somewhat determined by that 
anticipation and by the suggestions of General 
Harrison, who was favorable to the removal from 
Vincennes. Tradition also says, confirmatory of 
this, that Harrison owned large tracts of land in 
Harrison county, and was the founder of Corydon. 

The scant records that exist on the subject 
indicate that in 1S14 the Legislature rented quar- 
ters other than the court house. The privilege of 
occupying the latter was not settled at once, but 
in 1816 the associate judges of Harrison county 
ordered that it "be tendered to the Legislature 
for their use as a state house so long as Corydon 
shall remain the seat of government." 

.\ movement for the purchase of the old build- 
ing by the State as a relic was agitated in 1013. 



STATE SEAL OF INDIANA. 

The origin of the State Seal of Indiana is in- 
volved in obscurity. In tbe first lonstitutiou 
provision was made for a seal, and the Governor 
was authorized to secure one together with a 
"press," at a cost not to exceed one hundred 
dollars, which sum was appropriated for the 
purpose. The design of it was also described as 
"A forest and a woodman felling a tree, a buffalo 
leaving the forest and fleeing through the plain 
to a distant forest, and the sun setting in the 
west, with the word 'Indiana.'" No mountains, 
however, are mentioned. 

In lieu of further data this might be considered 
the origin of the ideas embodied in the seal; but 
the same general features have been found on a 
seal of Indiana Territor.v imprinted on a docu- 
ment at Washington, which bears the date of 
1802. In this imprint are the woodnian, l)uffalo, 
sun and mountain, with the word "Indiana." 
So it dates back at least to early territorial days, 
and may. it has been argued, have been brought 
in the beginning by either Governor Harrison 
or .^iecretary John Gil)Son. 



riKST PUIiLISIIKD MAP OF INDIANA. 

The first pnlilished map of Indiana, by ,Tohn 
Melish, appeared in 1817. At that lu-rind there 
were bnt nineteen counties in th. si m Sullivan, 
Knox, Gibson, Posey, W.-iiii ■ "•' ! ' . \ less. 
Orange, Perry, Harrison, AV:^ i ■ kson, 

Clark, Jefferson, Jennings, Si> ii ^ i i; i,.i Kipley, 
Dearborn and Wayne. It will lie n.iled that in 
this map Lake Michigan is shown to be in the 
central part of the northern boundary of the 
State. 




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^HE NORTHWEST TERRITORY AND 
INDIANA TERRITORY. 

What is known in liistory as the "Northwest 
Territory," which tame into the possession of 
Virginia by the conquest of George Rogers Clarlj. 
was transferred by Virginia- to the United States 
in 17S4 It was organized under the oflScial name 
of "Tlie Territory of the United States North- 
west of the River Oliio" and its general govern- 
ment determined by the famous "Ordinance of 
17S7," a distinctive feature of which was the 
provision against slavery in the territory. 

Until 1800 the whole territory was under the 
.iurisdiction of Governor St. Clair, but in 1800 
a division was made. All east of a line coinciding 
with the Western boundary of Ohio and extend- 
ing through Michigan to Canada still retained 
the name of the Northwest Territory, but all to 
the west, including the present States of Indiana. 
Illinois, Wisconsin, and parts of Michigan and 
.Minnesota, took the name "Indiana Territory." 
In 1802 the State of Ohio was formed with its 
present boundaries, and this threw all of Michi- 
gan into Indiana Territory. 

In 1805 Michigan Territory was cut off. In 
1S09 Illinois Territory was created, and this re- 
duced Indiana to its present boundaries, with 
the exception of one or two slight changes. The 
original Indiana Territory had three counties, 
and one of these, Knox, included all of the 
present State: hence the saying that Knox is 
the mother of Indiana counties. 







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THE THIKD STATE CAPITOL OF INDIANA. 

The first structure that was intended as a per- 
manent capitol, and which occupied the site set 
apart for that purpose in the original plan of 
Indianapolis, was begun in 1S32 and finished In 
1835. The work was put in the hands of Gov- 
ernor Noah Noble. James BlaUe, Samuel Merrill 
and Morris Morris, and the contract was let for 
$58,000 to Ithiel Town and I. J. Davis, the former 
of New York and one of the best-known Amer- 
ican architects of the day. The actual cost was 
$00,000. In dimensions the building was 200 feet 
long by 100 feet wide, and was two stories in 
height. In style it was a combination of the 
Greek Parthenon and a dome that was foreign 
to the Greek architecture, and it offered, in that 
respect, an unintentional parallel to the incon- 
gruous linguistic elements of Greek and Indian 
in the name Indianapolis. 

The building was not a creditable product of 
the noted architect, as it was constructed In a 
"shoddy" manner, and forty years' wear and 
tear made a dilapidated ruin of it. It was razed 
to make way for the present building in 1878. 
It occupied but one square, the grounds being 
bounded on the north side by Market street. 




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FOBi WAYNE. 

Fort Wayne, the military post, occupied a point 
of great importance at an early day, commanding, 
as it did. one of the routes of travel between the 
great lakes and the Mississippi valley. The 
Miami Indians held the place before the white 
men ; then the French built Fort Miami there, 
and by the Indian treaty of 1795, following the 
conquest of the northwestern tribes by Anthony 
Wayne, the United States seized upon the 
Wabash-Maumee portage as a desirable strategic 
military point. A fort was built there by 
Wayne's force soon after his decisive victory at 
the rapids of the JIaumee, and named in honor 
of the conqueror, and in the above-mentioned 
treaty it was one of the few spots on Indiana 
soil that was reserved to the whites. 

Early in the war of 1812 Port Wayne, then 
garrisoned by about one hundred men, many of 
whom were unfit for duty, and commanded by 
an officer who was incapacitated by intemper- 
ance, was invested by a force of Indians num- 
bering five to one. Even at that the besiegers 
resorted to treachery, the plan being to invite a 
conference at which the chiefs should carry 
weapons concealed beneath their blankets. At 
the opportune moment they were to attack the 
officers with whom they were conferring and then 
throw open the fort gates to their followers. 
Fortunately this scheme did not carry, and after 
seven days more of vigorous siege General Har- 
rison at the head of a large force arrived and 
relieved the garrison. 



HARMONIE AND NEW HARMONY. 

The two communities in Posey county, "Har- 
monie" and "New Harmony," are distinctive fe;i- 
tures in the State's history and have an abidin;; 
interest for the students of social experiments. 

The first of these. Harmonie, was established 
in 1815 by George Rapp and his followers, a 
German religious sect. These purchased a tract 
of something like thirty thousand acres on the 
Wabash, lived there for ten years, built a sub- 
stantial village and literally made "the wilderness 
to blossom as the rose." They were industrious, 
simple minded, intensely religious and docile to 
their leader. One of their tenets was the abol- 
ishment of sex relations and the marriage tie. 
All property was held in common. 

In 1S24 the "Rappites," as they are called, sold 
out their holdings to Robert Owen, a notable 
Scotch philanthropist, whose aspiration was to 
establish a new social order involving the prin- 
ciple of comrauniara. He re-named the place New 
Harmony. Owen drew to him a large but hetero- 
geneous following, and the history of his experi- 
meut is a sharp contrast to that of the Rappites. 
There were erratic divergences of opinion and 
general dissension, in the midst of which the 
idea of a harmonious community working to 
common ends w^ent to wreck. 

Owen and his chief co-worker, William Maclure, 
whose dream it was to establish a great school, 
soon left the community in the hands of others. 
It failed utterly of the original intentions, but 
the able men who continued to reside there gave 
the town a character that is unique in our annals. 




Marmonie, 1816. 



THE "CAPITAL IN THE WOODS." 

Indianapolis, in its earlier days, was appro- 
priately called tbe "Capital in the Woods." be- 
cause it was planted in the heart of the wilder- 
ness sixty miles from tbe nearest other settle- 
ment. Towns usually are founded with some 
reference to surrounding settlements and exist- 
ing social needs. Indianapolis was founded with 
the distinct idea of a future need — that of a 
properly located capital, which must be some- 
where near the center of the State. 

The United States had given to Indiana four 
square miles of land for its capital, with the 
privilege of locating it anywhere in territory 
yet unsold. As soon as the central portion of 
the State was thrown open the legislature ap- 
pointed ten commissioners from various counties 
to locate the site. Nine of these served, and three 
places are mentioned as having received consid- 
eration. One of these was the trading post of 
William Conner, four miles south of the site of 
Noblesville; one was the mouth of Pall creek, 
where several "sciuatters" had made a settlement, 
and the third was another squatter settlement at 
the bluffs of White river where the village of 
Waverly now stands, in Morgan county. The 
Fall creek site was chosen. The town was 
founded in 1821, under the supervision of Chris- 
topher Harrison, but it did not become the cap- 
ital in reality until 1S25, when the State. offices 
were removed from Corydon. 



'I'lie litUe frame bouse liere presented, still 
standing in Vincennes, is i-eputed by tradition 
to have been the first "capitoI" ot Indiana, or the 
building wherein the territorial leylslatnre held 
its sessions. Beyond that bare fact little is 
known or affirmed about it. It is now privately 
owned and occupied, and has been proposed that 
the city purchase it. move it into Harrison I'arli. 
near by. and convert it into a museum building— 
a happy idea which, it is to be hoped, will, nni- 
terialiy.e this centennial year. 

The first Territorial J^esislature met .7uly ,29. 
ISO.""!. It consisted of two houses; a House of 
Representatives and a Council. Seven members 
composed the House of Representativ.'s and were 
elected by the voters of the counties. JIa.i.-C.pn. 
Arthur St. Clair was the lirst iiovernor of Indiana 
Territory. 



THE "CNDEBGROUND RAILROAD." 

The "Underground Railroad" was a system of 
secret routes that existed north of the Ohio river, 
prior to the Civil War. over which fugitive slaves 
were furtively conveyed northward to the Cana- 
dian line, being passed ou from one "agent" to 
another, who carried them over stages or by 
relay. This work was a monument to the moral 
zeal of a large element whose protest against 
an iniquitous evil amounted to a defiance of that 
law of the nation which forbade any aid to 
fugitive slaves. 

The routes extended northward from certain 
crossing places of the Ohio river, but. though 
charts of them have been published, it is safe 
to say none of these is complete. In Indiana 
the most famous route ran up the east side of 
the State where the Quaker element was strong- 
est, those people being conspicuous in their oppo- 
sition to slavery. A recent book by Col. W. M. 
Cockruui shows that many escaping slaves passed 
through sections of southwest Indiana and the 
history of the conflicts between slave and anti- 
slave advocates presents many a thrilling story. 
The "stations" were the friendly points where 
the fugitives were received, concealed and cared 
for, then secretly forwarded. Neal's mill near 
Clay City is said to have been one of these sta- 
tions 




s Mill. ("Vnderground Kailroad" Station on Kei Ki^er iii I la 



BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. 

So far as is known Indiana tooli no actual fare 
of its defectives and dependents, other than pan- 
pers. nntil the early, and middle forties, when 
separate taxes were authorized for the aid of the 
deaf and dumb, the blind and the insane. -As 
early as 1827. however, the legislature set aside 
square No. 22 in the nriirinal plat of Indianapolis 
for a State hospital an<l lunatic asylum. In 1831 
a memorial to Cuiiiiress asked for a grant of 
land in each county amonnting to one section for 
the poor, one section for lunatics and two sec- 
tions for the deaf and dumb. No attention seems 
to have been paid to this memorial. 

The first State benevolent institution was tlie 
schoid for the deaf and dumb, which was estab- 
lished in 1S44. The school for the blind followed 
in 1847 and the hospital for the insane in 1S4.S, 
The square that had been set apart for the in- 
sane was not large enough .ind it was disposed 
of and ampler grounds secured west of the city. 
There is no record of any building having been 
erected on square No. 22. but Mr. C. Shrader's 
recollection as expressed in . the accompanying 
sketch probably rescues a fact from oblivion, 
though it is also probable that he errs slightly 
in location. Square No. 22 was bounded by 
.\labama, Vermont. New Jersey and New York 
streets. 




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THE NATIONAL ROAD BRIDGE. 

The old covered bridge which was for many 
years looked upon as one of the "antiquities" of 
Indianapolis spanned White river and gave pas- 
sage to the gr.eat National Road, which ran from 
Cumberland, Md., into western Illinois. This 
thorou.shfare reached Indiana in 1827. and the 
White river bridge was built out of a congres- 
sional appropriation made in 1831. Its cost was 
$18,000 and its builders are given as William 
Wernweg and Walter Blake. It was known as a 
"Wernweg" bridge from the fact that its arches 
of wood were constructed from a design invented 
by Wernweg. It was a staunch old structure 
and the timbers in it were as sound when torn 
down as when put in place. 

As another bridge to take the Washington 
street traffic was built before the old bridge was 
removed, an effort was made by some to pre- 
serve the old relic, which had been in service for 
more than sixty years, but the powers that were 
proved impervious to any sentiment of this sort. 

The National road, which was the great high- 
way from East to West before the railroads 
came into general use, was originally to have 
passed farther to the south, but through the 
influence of Senator Oliver H. Smith the route 
was shifted so as to take in Indianapolis. The 
building of the road was authorized by an act of 
Congress passed March 9, 1806, signed by Presi- 
dent Thomas Jefferson. 




Old National Rimd Briilee (Omt White Rmr Inclianapolii 



This beautiful bricli residence^ now the home 
of Mrs. A. W. Brewster, at Corydou. was the 
State Treasury Building iu 1823 and 1S24. In 
those years it was the home of Samuel Merrill. 
Treasurer of State. The valuables and funds, 
mostly iu silver, of the young State are said to 
have been kept in strong boxes in the cellar. 
which is entered by an outside stairway to the 
left of the front' porch. From this cellar the 
treasury was taken out in November, 1824, and 
with other property, documents and records of 
state in Mr. Merrill's custody, loaded into four 
four-horse wagons and carried over 125 miles of 
bottomless mud roads to the new capital at 
Indianapolis. The house, nearly 100 years old, is 
one of the handsomest houses In Indiana, and 
bids fair to last another century. 

It was the birthplace of Catharine Merrill, one 
of the best known of Indiana's teachers. 




TreaHury House, Corydon, 1833-1824. 



THE CAPITAL— "INDIANAPOLIS" 

"Adorned with cultivation's countless charms ; 
Orchards and gardens perfume every gale ; 
The sounds of busy, merry life prevail ; 
Afar, around, on every lovely height. 
The quiet homestead rises on the sight ; 
And towers the dome, each honest Hoosier's 

pride, 
Upon its own romantic river's side. 
Where 'legislation's sovereign powers' abide. 
Shrined in our famous capital, whose name 
Reflects that of the State and crowns her 

fame." 
— From the Poem ''Indiana, " by Isaac H. Julian. 



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LOCKERBIE STREET. 

A little street that has become famous because 
of its association with the Hoosier poet, whose 
home is situated in it. in Indianapolis, is Lock- 
erbie street. His home has been here for thirt.v 
.vears or more. Mr. Riley's discovery of Lockerbie 
street impressed him so much that he indited a 
poem to It that lirst appeared In the Indianapolis 
.Journal. The part he refers to is but a block 
long, a roadbed of gravel, greensward on the 
sides, fine old trees with flowers and lawns in 
front of the old-fashioned houses. The march of 
improvement has not marred its original quaint- 
ness and beauty and it is yet as when he wrote: 
"O my Lockerbie street: You are fair to be seen— 
Be it noon of the day or the rare and serene 
Afternoon of the night — you are one to my heart 
And I love you above all the phrases of art. 
For no language could frame and no lips could 

repeat 
My rhyme-haunted raptures of Lockerbie street !" 




HaaBier Poet. .lamps Wliilcomli Riley. 



NEURONHURST' 

Training School for Nurses 



The profession of nursing calls out the best 
qualities of women and trains them for scientific 
use in the home, the hospital or in social service 
work. It affords not only a well-paid profession to 
those who continue in it as their life work, but it 
fits a woman for her own home making by the 
scientific training given along the lines of hygienic 
living, the prevention of ilisease_ and the care of 
the sick. 

The training school for nurses in connection 
with the Doctor W. B. Fletcher's Sanatorium was 
established in 1889 and its graduates are admitted 
to examination before the Indiana State Board of 
Registration for State license and to member.ship 
in the State Nurses' Association. 

The work of the school covers a period of three 
years, which gives a course in the scientific care of 
nervous invalids, in general nursing and in the care 
of surgical cases. By arrangement with the man- 
agement of the Florence Crittenden Home, the 



student nurses receive practical training in obstet- 
rical work at that institution, which affords unusual 
facilities in this branch of nursing. 

"Neuronhurst" — Dr. W. B. Fletcher's Sanato- 
rium was established in 1888 by Dr. W. B. Fletcher 
for the treatment of nervous diseases. He associated 
with him in establishing the sanatorium Dr. Mary 
.A. Spink who for twenty years worked side by side 
with him in the amelioration of the sick and 
nervous patients who came to the institution for 
treatment. She now has complete charge of the 
management of the medical department of the 
sanatorium, which has been incorporated under the 
laws of the State of Indiana. 

For fuller information in regard to the Train- 
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•'NEURONHURST." 

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THE HOOSIER'S NEST 



I'm told, in riding somewhere west. 
A stranger found a. Hoosier's nest — 
In other words, a Buckeye cabin. 
Just big enough to hold Queen Mab in; 
Its situation, low, but airy. 
Was on the borders of a prairie; 
And fearing he might be benighted. 
He hailed the house and then alighted. 

The Hoosier met him at the door — 
Their salutations soon were o'er. 
He took the stranger's horse aside. 
And to a sturdy sapling tied; 
Then, having stripped the saddle off. 
He fed him on a sugar trough. 

The stranger stooped to enter in — 
The entrance closing with a pin — 
And manifested strong desire 
To seat himself by the log heap fire. 
Where half a dozen Hoosieroons, 
With mush and milk, tin cups and spoons. 
White head, bare feet and dirty faces. 
Seemed much inclined to keep their places 
But Madam, anxious to display 
Her rough but undisputed sway, 
Her offspring to the ladder led, 
.^nd cufTfed the youngsters up to bed. 



Invited shortly to partake 
Of venison, milk and johnny cake 
The stranger made a hearty meal. 
And glances round the room would steal 

One side was lined with divers garment 
The other spread with skins of "varmints' 
Dried pumpkins overhead were strung, 
Where venison hams in plenty hung;. 
Two rifles placed above the door; 
Three dogs lay stretched upon the floor — 
In short, the domicile was rife 
With specimens of Hoosier life. 

The host, who center'd his affections 
On game, and range, and quarter sections 
Discoursed his weary guest for hours. 
Till Somnus' all-composing powers 
Of sublunary cares bereft him; 
And then — 

No matter how the story ended; 
The application I intended 
Is from the famous Scottish poet. 
Who seemed to feel as well as know it. 
That "buirdly chiels and clever hizzies 

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